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• SIR THOMAS WYATTThe Lover Showeth How He is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime EnjoyedThe AppealEDMUND SPENSEROne Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand'SIR WALTER RALEIGH"'As Ye came from the Holy Land'"Her ReplySIR PHILIP SIDNEY "Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show'"His Lady's CrueltyThe BargainJOHN LYLYCards and KissesGEORGE PEELEA Summer SongHENRY CONSTABLEDiapheniaSAMUEL DANIEl"If This Be Love, to Draw a Weary Breath'"MICHAEL DRAYTONThe PartingCHRISTOPHER MARLOWEThe Passionate Shepherd to His LoveWILLIAM SHAKESPEAREShall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?'That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold'From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring'When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time'Let Me Not to the Marriage fo True Minds'My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun'THOMAS CAMPIONCherry-Ripe"Thou Art Not Fair, for all Thy Red and White'"Vobiscum est IopeSIR HENRY WOTTONElizabeth of BohemiaJOHN DONNEThe Sun RisingThe CanonizationSongThe ApparitionThe EctasyThe FuneralElegy: On His Mistress Going to BedBEN JONSONTo CeliaThe Hour GlassTHOMAS HEYWOODMatin SongGEORGE WITHER"I Loved a Lass, a Fair One'"ROBERT HERRICK"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"Upon Julia's ClothesChop-CherryFRANCIS QUARLES A Divine RaptureHENRY KINGSonnetExequy on His WifeTHOMAS CAREWSongTo His Inconstant MistressEDMUND WALLEROn a GirdleSongJOHN MILTONOn His Deceased WifeSIR JOHN SUCKLING"Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?'"The Constant LoverRICHARD LOVELACE"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars""To Althea, from Prison"The ScrutinyANDREW MARVELLTo His Coy MistressThe Definition of LoveThe Mower to the Glo-WormsJOHN DRYDEN"Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!'""JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER"ReturnA Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient LoverMATTHEW PRIORAn OdeWILLIAM CONGREVEPious Selinda Goes to Prayers'False through She Be to Me and Love'JOHN GAYSweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed SusanHENRY CAREYSally in Our AlleyWILLIAM COWPERTo MaryWILLIAM BLAKEHow Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field'Love's SecretThe Clod and the PebbleThe Garden of LoveROBERT BURNSOf A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw'John Anderson My JoThe Banks o' Doon"A Red, Red Rose"WILLIAM WORDSWORTHStrange Fits of Passion Have I Known'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways'Surprised by Joy?Impatient as the Wind'SIR WALTER SCOTTAn Hour with TheeWALTER SAVAGE LANDORPast Ruin'd Ilion Heln Lives'"Proud Word You Never Spoke, but You Will Speak'"Rose Aylmer"You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed'"The Torch of Love Dispels the Gloom'"If I Am Proud, You Surely Know'"THOMAS CAMPBELLFreedom and LoveTHOMAS MOOREDid notAn ArgumentAt the Mid Hour of Night"GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON"When We Two Parted'"She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night'""So, We'll Go No More A-Roving'"PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove's PhilosophyTo ?JOHN CLAREFirst LoveTo Mary: 'It Is the Evening Hour'"To Mary: 'I Sleep with Thee, and Wake with Thee'"The SecretI Hid My LoveJOHN KEATS"Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art?'"THOMAS HOODRuthWILLIAM BARNESThe Wife A-LostRALPH WALDO EMERSONGive All to LoveELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNINGI Thought Once How Theocritus Had sung'How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways'EDGAR ALLAN POETo HelenTo One in ParadiseAnnabel Lee"ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White'""Come Not, When I am Dead'"ROBERT BROWNINGThe Last Ride TogetherMeeting at NightBad DreamsLoveEMILY BRONTËRemembranceIf Grief for Grief Can Touch Thee'WALT WHITMANOnce I Pass'd through a Populous CityWhen I heard at the Close of the DaySometimes with One I LoveAs if a Phantom Caress'd MeFrom Pent-Up Aching RiversMATTHEW ARNOLDLongingAbsenceCOVENTRY PATMOREThe RevelationA FarewellThe AzaleaDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTISudden LightSilent NoonSevered SelvesWithout HerThe Orchard-PitGEORGE MEREDITHBy This He Knew She Wept with Waking Eyes'In Our Old Shipwrecked Days There Was an Hour'EMILY DICKINSONWe Outgrow Love Like Other Things'My Life Closed Twice before Its Close'CHRISTINA ROSSETTIA BirthdayEchoMayThe First DayWILLIAM MORRISLove Is EnoughALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNELove and SleepWILFRID BLUNTSt. Valentine's DayTHOMAS HARDYA Broken AppointmentIn a Cathedral CityA Thunderstorm in TownALICE MEYNELLRenouncementA. E. HOUSMAN"Oh, When I Was in Love with You'"Along the Field as We Came By'White in the Moon the Long Road Lies'W. B. YEATSDown by the Salley GardensBrown PennyA Drinking SongNever Give All the HeartWhen You Are OldARTHUR SYMONSWhite HeliotropeERNEST DOWSONNon sum qualis eram bonae sub regno CynaraeEDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSONEros TurannosHILAIRE BELLOCJulietROBERT FROSTMeeting and PassingD.H. LAWRENCEGloire de DijonEZRA POUNDThe River-Merchant's Wife: A LetterEDWARD THOMASLike the Touch of RainJOHN CROWE RANSOMPiazza PieceEDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed'"HART CRANECarrier letterALPHABETICAL LIST OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES